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SAML 2 in SharePoint 2010

1 Comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 27, 2012

Out of the box, SharePoint 2010 as of yet only supports SAML 1.1. This is bad news if you, for example, were planning to use claims authentication and let the AppFabric Access Control Service (ACS) handle authentication. What can you do? Basically, create a custom authentication provider. Here are some links:

Also, follow the Wiki page at: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7826.sharepoint-2010-saml-2-support.aspx

Uncategorized SAML, sharepoint

Setting up test and dev environments for SharePoint Online?

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 22, 2012

Not really easy to do. MS guidelines currently seem to recommend creating a local SharePoint environment that mimicks the structure you have online.

One option that is available for setting up a test environment is to become a MS partner for free (see https://partners.microsoft.com/partnerprogram/PartnerMembershipCenter.aspx ) and register for a free Office 365 subscription you could use as a test environment. Also check:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh147180.aspx#odc_sp14_ta_SPOnlineDevGuide_SetupDevEnvironment

This basically says: build sandboxed solutions in a local SharePoint env and test them there, because SPOL won’t let you do that.

Finally, check this: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=17069

Uncategorized sharepoint, SharePoint Online

Features and editions

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 21, 2012

This feature overview per SharePoint edition (Foundation, Standard, and Enterprise) is bound to come in handy someday: http://sharepoint.microsoft.com/en-us/buy/pages/editions-comparison.aspx

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Print from SharePoint 2010

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 21, 2012

Although the company name “The Unbounded” sounds more like a Francis Ford Coppola movie than a company name (hey, who are we to judge calling our company Lois & Clark IT Services), their printing services product sounds interesting: http://www.theunbounded.com/products/printing-services/

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About SharePoint 2010 and PDF

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 20, 2012

In almost every project, there comes a time when someone asks why they can’t open PDF docs directly. These links provide answers:

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Features to activate – February 2012

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 16, 2012

Just updated the WIKI page:

http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/7341.which-features-do-i-need-to-activate-in-sharepoint-2010.aspx

Uncategorized sharepoint, wiki

Adding HTML directly to the Content Editor Web Part

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 15, 2012

So there’s a difference between SPS 2010 and the previous version. We set out to add some HTML to a Content Editor Web Part and had to look a couple of times. Where did that option go? Here’s the answer: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/4988.how-to-add-html-content-into-the-content-editor-webpart-in-sharep

Uncategorized Content Editor Web Part, sharepoint

Cool party trick using NTFS Alternate Data Streams

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 15, 2012

NTFS Alternate Data Streams allows you to create multiple data streams for a single file. This allows for the possibility to specify metadata such as access rights, date and time info and such. The cool party trick (if you have a somewhat geeky audience) is that you can use it to hide text in Notepad: http://www.codeproject.com/Tips/214552/Hiding-Text-in-Notepad.

The downside of NTFS Alternate Data Streams seems to be that the SharePoint crawler doesn’t play nice with it: http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/sharepoint2010setup/thread/c3699c7b-1c38-4769-b5f8-07170475874f

Uncategorized NTFS Alternate Data Streams, sharepoint

EWS provides added value for SharePoint

Leave a comment Posted by Nikander & Margriet Bruggeman on February 15, 2012

The MS Exchange Web Services API allows clients to communicate with Exchange Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd633709(v=EXCHG.80).aspx . The following blog post provides a nice example where SharePoint users get to see how many unread messages they have: http://sw1ma.wordpress.com/2011/11/21/exchange-web-services-ews-managed-api-applications/ . A great way to extend capabilities beyond the ones provided by Outlook Web Access (OWA).

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